Hidden inside recreants sit recanters and recreants, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 431 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recanters and recreants tie for the highest Scrabble score from recreants at 11 points. The top 10 of 431 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in recreants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recreants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are recanters and recreants, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recreants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers. For points, the strongest plays are caterers, centares, reascent, recanter, recrates, recreant, reenacts, retraces, sarcenet, and terraces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recreants produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, caterer, centers, creates, eastern, and nearest. For points, the strongest plays are canters, careens, careers, carnets, carters, caserne, caterer, centare, centers, centres, cerates, cetanes, craters, creaser, creates, crenate, ecartes, nectars, recanes, recants, recrate, reenact, retrace, scanter, tanrecs, tenaces, tenrecs, terrace, tracers, and trances — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recreants turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, career, caters, center, create, easter, and enters. For points, the strongest plays are ascent, caners, canter, careen, career, carers, carets, carnet, carter, cartes, casern, caster, caters, censer, centas, center, centra, centre, cerate, certes, cetane, cranes, crater, crates, crease, create, ecarte, enacts, encase, erects, nacres, nectar, racers, rances, reacts, recane, recant, recast, recent, resect, scarer, screen, seance, secant, secern, secret, seneca, stance, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, terces, tracer, traces, and trance — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recreants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, cease, cents, earns, and eaten. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acres, caner, canes, canst, cants, carer, cares, caret, carns, carrs, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, cense, cents, ceres, certs, cesta, cetes, crane, crate, crest, enact, erect, escar, nacre, narcs, racer, races, rance, react, recta, scant, scare, scart, scena, scene, scent, scran, scree, serac, taces, terce, and trace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recreants produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, arts, cans, care, cars, and cart. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, acts, arcs, cane, cans, cant, care, carn, carr, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cent, cere, cert, cete, narc, race, recs, scan, scar, scat, sect, tace, and tecs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recreants turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, are, art, ate, can, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, cee, rec, sac, sec, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recreants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in recreants plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recreants and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
recreants is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for recreants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
recreants is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recreants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recanters and recreants, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recreants earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in recreants produce 431 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.